Guest commentary: Health-care ‘reform’ won’t cut cost, improve delivery
By AdminMost Americans believe proposed health-care-reform legislation is focused on improving the cost and delivery of health care.
Not true! Improvement of the health-care delivery system is only an illusion.
I suggest to you that this legislation is a clear case of camouflage and concealment. One only needs to examine the three most costly components of our current health-care system to shed light on the subject.
1. Suppressed competition on interstate health-care providers.
2. Excessive costs associated with malpractice suits.
3. Extremely burdensome administrative regulations imposed on providers.
The concentrated effort of the Obama administration is to move the decision-making authority for determining the national policy of the best health-care system in the world from the doctor and patient to a legislative body and government bureaucracy, both of which have little or no medical qualifications for the task. There are virtually no provisions in the current legislation to reduce the major causes of high cost, other than to cut back major components of Medicare services… more
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